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Katherine Kelly -actress

Katherine Kelly (born 19 November 1979) is an English actress. A 2001 graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she played Becky McDonald in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2006 to 2012, for which she won Best Actress at the 2009 British Soap Awards and Best Serial Drama Performance at the 2012 National Television Awards. From 2013 to 2016 she played Mae, Lady Loxley in the ITV drama series Mr Selfridge. Kelly's theatre credits include Othello at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2002, playing Kate Hardcastle in the 2012 National Theatre revival of She Stoops to Conquer, and Alaura in City of Angels at the Donmar Warehouse in 2014. In 2012, she starred in the BBC Four Kenny Everett biopic Best Possible Taste. Her other television credits include The Guilty (2013), The Field of Blood (2013), Happy Valley (2016), The Night Manager (2016), and the Doctor Who spin-off series Class (2016). In 2019, she is to appear in a leading role as Leah in ITV drama Cheat.

Kelly's first television role after leaving Coronation Street was in the 90-minute BBC Four biopic The Best Possible Taste, in which she played Lee Middleton, wife of Kenny Everett.[7] In early 2013 she played socialite Lady Loxley in the ten part ITV1 drama series Mr Selfridge,[8] later signing on to appear in the second series of the show in 2014[9] and its final series in 2016.

Later in 2013 she joined the lead cast of The Field of Blood, based on the novel by Denise Mina. Kelly played Maloney, an ambitious woman in the "ferociously male-dominated world of 1980s newspaper journalism".[10] Also that year she starred in the three part ITV thriller, The Guilty, as Claire Reid, mother to a missing five-year-old child.[11]

In August 2015 it was announced that Kelly would join the cast of Happy Valley, which aired the following year.[12] In the series Kelly portrays DI Jodie Shackleton, a part that was written for her by series creator Sally Wainwright. Kelly enjoyed the opportunity to play a character in her native Yorkshire accent, and prepared for the role by shadowing police detectives in Halifax.[13] Also in 2016 she appeared as the Permanent Secretary in four episodes of The Night Manager.

Kelly is to portray Leah in a 4-part ITV drama called Cheat in early 2019.

Music

Kelly appeared on the 2010 album, Coronation Street: Rogues, Angels, Heroes & Fools. Kelly, in character as Becky McDonald, sang the lead single from the album, If It's Too Late, which was remixed by former PWL and Stock Aitken Waterman "Mixmaster", Pete Hammond as a "surprise present" for Kelly after she announced she was leaving Coronation Street.[15]

Personal life

Kelly married Ryan Clark in 2013 in Las Vegas. In 2014, she gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Orla Kelly Clark. On 21 October 2016, she gave birth to a second daughter, Rose Christie Clark.